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and the course of the war In the late 1800's the chancellor of Germany, Otto von Bismarck created a secret defensive alliance called the three empires alliance. Germany, Austria, and Italy banded together in case of a war with France. In the Beginning…

the brink of war in 1911, with Britain and Germany in an arms race and all the great powers locked in precarious alliances." (Pg 40) A soldier's wife received her husband's journals that he wrote while out in war for his country. His name was Kobra…

from 1919 to the start of WWII. Firstly, in a year, he gained power in the German workers party, which in a decade would become the only party in Germany. Early on in 1919, his talent for public speaking and the use of the local army's resources drew…

in Washington, DC honors those who died under persecution of the Nazis during World War II. The museum serves as a constant reminder of the atrocities that took place, memorializing the victims who suffered due to other men's lack of humanity.…

to have hostile countries on either side - France and Russia - Germany needed a plan to win a war on two fronts. This plan was devised in the early twentieth century by Count Alfred von Schlieffen and then tinkered with fairly extensively by the younger…

or will not be at all.'Y This great Tragedy, was in fact a problem that could only be stopped beforehand, by teaching and by acknowledging what had happened in our past, for 'Silence, indifference and inaction were Hitler's principal allies.'YY…

and Nagasaki necessary to end World War II? In the analysis on the decision to drop 'the Bomb' on Japan at the end of World War II, historians will usually either tend to one of two schools of thought. The orthodox school stress that the atomic bombs…

the Western Front after training in England -They reached the Western Front in February 1915 -They joined French-Algerian troops in the trenches near the town of Ypres -April 22, two months after arriving, Germany choose Ypres for the first gas …

of the United States government during the time of the Cold War, the film, Seven Days in May, is an excellent example of the problems arising within the government and the people during the time of this war. The film displays the lack of confidence…

and very sensitive issue especially for the German people. The outbreak of a First World War in 1914, and the horrors which it unleashed stimulated a hot debate on the question of 'war guilt.' It is possible to imagine that people felt they needed…